Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.

Love is not jealous, angry or afraid.

It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements.

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.